3rd Edition
Critical Issues in Contemporary China Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’
The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping’s strategies to address critical domestic and international challenges facing China in a ‘new era’.
This book joins the current debates about Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’, reflecting upon the continuity and change in the CCP’s domestic and foreign policies under Xi’s leadership and Xi’s capacity to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. The international team of contributors evaluate such pressing issues as:
•Xi’s re-centralization of power and securitization of domestic politics,
•the Chinese economic model,
•state-civil society relations,
•Xi’s gender policy and return to the traditional family values,
•Beijing’s responses to unrest in Xinjiang and Hong Kong,
•Xi’s evolving unification strategies towards Taiwan,
•the Belt and Road Initiative, and
•the deterioration of US-China relations.
Providing readers with rich empirical assessment of Xi’s responses to the political, economic, social and international challenges facing contemporary China, the third edition of Critical Issues will be an essential resource for students of Chinese politics, economy, society and foreign relations.
List of contributors vii
List of tables ix
List of figures x
1 Decoding Xi Jinping’s China 1
CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ
2 Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’ in Chinese domestic politics 21
CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ
3 China’s coming economic adjustment 50
MICHAEL PETTIS
4 State-civil society relations in China under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping 63
RUNYA QIAOAN AND ESTHER SONG
5 Women returning home: gender policy under Xi Jinping 77
ANNIE DRAHOS
6 Xinjiang in the 21st century: surveillance, social reengineering and settler colonialism in Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’ 97
MICHAEL CLARKE
7 Beijing’s authoritarian responses to populism in Hong Kong 119
SONNY LO
8 Political change in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations from Mao to
Xi Jinping 138
CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ
9 China’s Belt and Road Initiative 162
CAROLIJN VAN NOORT AND THOMAS COLLEY
10 United States and China: rivalry, tensions and protracted struggle 180
ROBERT SUTTER
Index 197
Biography
Czeslaw Tubilewicz is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has edited Critical Issues in Contemporary China (2006, 2017) and authored Chinese Power and American States (2025), (co-authored with Natalie Omond) The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China (2021), Chinese Constructions of Sovereignty and the East China Conflict (2020), Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe (2007) and Taiwan and the Soviet Bloc, 1949–1991 (2005).
